College Board

Chronology of Coverage

Jun. 16, 2015

College Board announces that it will not score two sections of SAT that was administered nationally on June 6, and will waive fees for students who want to retake it; test booklets contained misprint about time allotted for a reading section of the exam. MORE

May. 5, 2015

Op-Ed article by University of California president emeritus Richard C Atkinson and education researcher Saul Geiser welcomes changes to College Board's SAT but says test is still problematic; observes greatest drawback is that test will still rank students, comparing their scores to other test takers, rather than measuring how much knowledge they actually have on given subjects. MORE

Sep. 2, 2014

Op-Ed article by historian James R Grossman disputes criticism of College Board's revision of history curriculum for Advanced Placement tests; holds students need an unvarnished picture of our nation's past and the skills to understand and interpret that picture; says historians and educators who worked on new history framework are right to emphasize historical thinking as essential aspect of civic culture. MORE

Apr. 16, 2014

College Board will release many details of its revised SAT, to be introduced in the spring of 2016, including sample questions and explanations of the research, goals and specifications behind them; one big change is in vocabulary questions, which will no longer include obscure words. MORE

Mar. 9, 2014

Todd Balf article describes how College Board, led by its president David Coleman, decided to revamp the SAT test, which was almost universally disliked; notes board had to address issues like whether test was designed in a way that made it easier for wealthier students; says it also had to address growing number of universities that did not require it as part of the application process. MORE

Mar. 7, 2014

Jennifer Finney Boylan Op-Ed article cites news that College Board is rolling out complete do-over of the SAT test; describes her own stressful experience taking the SAT; argues exam will still be inaccurate measurement of student potential, even with its changes, and should be done away with once and for all. MORE

Mar. 6, 2014

College Board announces fundamental rethinking of the SAT, ending the longstanding penalty for guessing wrong, cutting obscure vocabulary words and making the essay optional; cites desire to bring test more in line with the reality of high school curriculums; also announces programs to help low-income students, who will be eligible to receive free college application waivers and online practice. MORE

Dec. 5, 2013

Professors at Davidson College in North Carolina will design online lessons for high school students in Advanced Placement courses in calculus, physics and macroeconomics and make them widely available through the College Board and edX, a nonprofit online education venture. MORE

Oct. 25, 2013

College Board report finds net cost of tuition, fees, room and board for average student at private, nonprofit college is about 57 percent of sticker price, or $23,000, down from 68 percent in 2003-4; figure adjusted for inflation has not varied much for decade; net cost accounts for increased discounts, grants and tax benefits. MORE

Sep. 30, 2013

Letter from Catharine B Hill, president, Vassar College, comments on Sept 26 article about the College Board's nationwide outreach program aimed at low-income high school seniors. MORE

Sep. 26, 2013

College Board, group that administers the SAT, has begun a nationwide outreach program to try to persuade more low-income high school seniors who scored high on standardized tests to apply to select colleges. MORE

Feb. 21, 2013

College Board reports that nearly one-third of nation’s 2012 public high school graduates took at least one of its Advanced Placement tests. MORE

Oct. 24, 2012

College Board reports that the average price of college tuition, fees, room and board, after deducting financial aid awards and tax credits from the bill, experiences its largest increase since 2003. MORE

Sep. 25, 2012

College Board notices a slight drop in the average score on the critical reading section of the SAT college entrance exam for the graduating high school class of 2012. MORE

Jun. 21, 2012

College Board places 857 empty desks on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to represent the number of students who drop out of high school every hour of every school day; display is part of the board's effort to urge presidential candidates to put education at the top of their to-do lists. MORE

May. 16, 2012

David Coleman, architect of the common core curriculum standards being adopted in nearly all 50 states, will become president of the College Board, starting in October 2012. MORE

Oct. 26, 2011

College Board will hire former FBI director Louis J Freeh to review its security procedures in response to the arrest of seven Long Island teenagers accused of cheating on the SAT; group will also begin analyzing more test scores for irregularities and increase training for test-center supervisors. MORE

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